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Prominence in Language

Linguistic research at the University of Cologne

CRC "Prominence in Language"

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Welcome to "Prominence in Language"

In this Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252) more than sixty researchers are working together in an interdisciplinary team with the goal of providing a comprehensive characterization of prominence in language.

We investigate how prominence structures language with respect to prosody (Area A), morphosyntax and semantics (Area B) as well as text and discourse structure (Area C) in a large variety of languages from more than a dozen major language families and linguistic areas world wide. Our research on prominence contributes to a better understanding of language as a system between communication and cognition.

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Procope Program: Kick off event

Procope Program: Kick off event

Tabea Thies (T01) is pleased to announce the kick-off event of the DAAD-funded Procope program exchange between Paris and Cologne, taking place on April 16th. The event will feature two exciting sessions; the talk "Investigating Speech Breathing with E/M Articulography" and the workshop "Introduction to the Articulatory Data Analysis Tool". For more information please click here.
47. DGfS Annual Conference 2025

47. DGfS Annual Conference 2025

This year's annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) took place from March 4 to 7 at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Members of the CRC were involved in the organization of the workshop: AG 3 "Attractors in language variation, processing and change", Matthias Schlesewsky & Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (University of South Australia), Petra Schumacher (A01, C07, C09). For more information click here.
Early Career Researcher award 2025 by the SLLS

Early Career Researcher award 2025 by the SLLS

Justine Mertz (associated with A04) received the Early Career Researcher award 2025 for her work on "Exploring prosodic modulation in LSF: A kinematic study on sign coarticulation"! She received the award at the TISLR15 conference (14-17 January 2025) in Addis Abeba in Ethiopia.
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